pediatric housecalls Robert R. Jarrett M.D. M.B.A. FAAP

Hello, and welcome to Pediatric House Calls. I am…
A Physician board certified in Pediatric medicine with Clinical experience including caring for infants, children and teens – well these days mostly children and teens up to twenty-one;
An Administrator experienced in top medical management for several national health insurance companies;
An Author of health care manuals, newspaper columns and even children's stories;
A Business Medical Consultant for drug companies, insurance companies and physician practices;
A Veteran of the US Navy in the Vietnam era;
And…
I make House-Calls.

Worlds Most Massive Study: Five Diseases Reduced by Physical Activity, Excersize

Family riding bycicles for excersize together

Believe it or not, the absurdly-expansive claim about exercise in the heading even may be an understatement! No other study even comes close and it’s findings were unexpectedly clear: FIVE OF THE WORLDS TOP DISEASES ARE REDUCED BY PHYSICAL ACTIVITY. Simple physical activity!

Literally, the counsel given to Adam and Eve: “by the sweat of thy brow thou shall eat thy bread” seems to have been a commandment and not just gardening instructions!
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Self-prescribed Glasses Using Adaptive Optics

A TED prize winner, Josh Silver, explains how millions of glasses can be prescribed and produced then given to world citizens who need them. It turns out that many of the significant barriers to good eye health are system-created and thus can be overcome.

Glasses without the need for an optometrist; and for under 19 dollars a pair (shooting for under a dollar).

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Telling Truth or Lies to Children: Parenting

The Mollinator (Tooth Fairy) from the movie Santa Claus

Even though I’ve never met him, my brother from another mother Dr. Greg Barrett beat me yet again to writing another parenting article and literally took the words right out of my mouth: Telling truth or lies to children—being honest with your children.

So much so it’s going to be hard giving you my personal take on this important part of parenting without feeling like I’m just repeating what he said: whether or not to tell the truth or lie to your children.
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Proverbs of Medicine: Sleep Habits to be Healthy, Wealthy and Wise

Teen boy sleeping

Some time ago I did a series of posts about medical proverbs but deliberately left one out: The Sleep Habits to be “Healthy Wealthy and Wise.” It deserved an entire post of its own.

We (and Wiki and Google) usually associate this aphorism with Benjamin Franklin and his “Poor Richard’s Almanack”—a collection of maxims published in the early 18-hundreds. But it sounds mighty Hippocratean or Socratean to me.
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Blind: Using Sonar To Navigate

Daniel Kish: Seeing With Your Brain

He calls himself unremarkable which is obviously not so. He says he’s been blind since nearly birth but navigates up steps and onto the TED stage on his own without a misstep. He knows that others see him as unusually capable for a blind person and call him “batman” but calls it only living without fear and activating your brain.

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Hyperactivity and Puberty – “ADHD on Testosterone”

13 year old boy with ADHK doing a high kick jump

I’m actually quite proud of how the series of articles I wrote on Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) turned out; until recently that is, when it dawned on me that it wasn’t over yet. I had left out an important issue: when hyperactivity meets puberty.

Puberty and hyperactivity, normal teen issues on steroids

The same holds true from my extensive series of articles about puberty—I didn’t mention how it is effected or even altered by hyperactivity. Read more →